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What's New in FeedDemon 2.6?

Despite the minor version difference, FeedDemon 2.6 is actually a significant upgrade from version 2.5.  The release notes have the gory details on the changes, but I'll highlight a few of them here.

Many of the changes are under the hood, yet I think you'll notice them right away because FeedDemon 2.6 is considerably faster than the previous version.  A number of features benefit from the speed increase, but newspaper rendering, synchronizing and feed updating got the biggest performance boost.

New features include the panic button, which offers a cure for feed overload, and the attention report, which gives an overview of the attention you're spending on your feeds.   And if you use FeedDemon as your primary browser (as I do), you'll really appreciate the new inline search, which is modeled after Firefox's search toolbar.

FeedDemon's prefetching and offline reading received an overhaul, and the default "surfer" newspaper style has been redesigned.  In fact, pretty much every aspect of FeedDemon's user interface has been tweaked in this release.

I guess you could say that FeedDemon 2.6 is like a faster, more polished version of FeedDemon 2.5 :)

Posted by Nick Bradbury on January 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM in FeedDemon | Permalink